From: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
To: CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@cjr.nz>
Subject: Re: DFS name resolution bug
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 18:13:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH2r5mte9Phy5bAHNHeVZ-2CX-N1JYoxV7ZUjDZvAbiOdGGTcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2r5msu6Or-pOXFx23S9d7_3Uu8UoftiJMqL5dBL7Ji=MsxaQ@mail.gmail.com>
nevermind - user error
keyutils was not installed as a dependency of cifs-utils ... so had to
install keyutils
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 5:46 PM Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I saw a strange error testing DFS today.
>
> When I connected to the server it gave out the referrals with the
> server hostname. Since the client wasn't configured for DNS, I had
> added an entry in /etc/hosts for that hostname with the correct ip
> address.
>
> When I ping the hostname it works ... but mount still fails and in
> cifs.ko I get "dnfs_resolve_server_name_to_ip: unable to resolve: ..."
>
> It looks like a locally configured (/etc/hosts) address doesn't work
> with DFS on Linux client.
>
> Ideas?
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
--
Thanks,
Steve
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